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Last Updated: June 03, 2026
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For developers, startups, and small enterprises, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers one of the most generous free tiers in the tech industry. By building and hosting your testing, staging, or light production workloads strictly within the "Always Free" resource limits, you can avoid cloud bills entirely.
This tier provides you with two AMD-based compute virtual machines, up to four ARM-based Ampere A1 compute instances (sharing 24 GB of RAM), and 200 GB of total block storage, completely free of charge, permanently eliminating infrastructure hosting overhead for smaller projects.
Oracle's "Flex Shapes" solves this by letting you customize the exact number of OCPUs and gigabytes of memory for your specific workload, eliminating over-provisioning waste. Combine this with automated lifecycle policies that move older, infrequently accessed application data into OCI Archive Storage to instantly drop your data retention costs down to a fraction of standard block volume storage fees.